Rockland High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Rockland, ME)

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elected David Holden for vice-presidnt, John Benson for secretary, Charles Foote for treasurer. As upper class members of the Student Council, these Juniors served: Richard Harper, Betty Crozier, Lucille Koster, Lois Tootill, and Richard McIn- tosh. We spent a lot or -time doing a lot of things as Juniors. We presented the Junior Prom in December the success of which was due in part to Richard Mc- Intosh, Virginia Manning, Kenneth Nel- son, Richard Harper, Evelyn Perry, Richard Pease, Carolyn Chisholm, Doro- thy Curtis, and Jean Weir, who served on the Prom Committee. Of course many of the boys had gone out for football and basketball, and in addition to these the class was working on the Highlite, Cam- era Club, Glee Clubs and Orchetsra. French Club, Commercial Club plus many other things. 4 In February we had what may be' con- sidered one of the biggest events of the Junior year, the Junior Class play. It was The Doctor Has a Daughter and those in the cast were Dorothy Curtis, Jean Weir, Jack Northgraves, David Cassens, Lois Tootlll, Richard McIntosh, Kenneth Nelson. Carolyn Chisholm, Jane Mullen, Ruth Roberts, Marilyn Dudley, David Cassens, David Ulmer, Florence Eagan, Elvira Johnson, Wesley Hayes, and Beverly Brewer. Not only the cast but the entire class helped to make it a great success. As a consequence of the play twenty-one Juniors became members of the National Thesplan Society. We sent a delegate to the Student Legislature and Grace Thompson and Lois Tootlll to -the Science Fair. Wesley Hayes won a prize in the essay contest sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. The greatest honor was bestowed on Richard Pease, James Connellan, Betty Crozier, Lois Tootlll, and David Cassens, when they were elected to the National Honor Society. We finished this year by decorating for the Senior Graduation at which we served as ushers. The next year we entered school with a dignified aspect. Perhaps we should have felt extremely elated, but we ac- cepted our posi-tion as Seniors in a matter of fact way. I guess when you reach the top, you don't need a build-up. We found that our attitude toward Freshmen had changed completely, for we no longer had morbid, unconscious wishes to make the Freshmen uncom- fortable, we wished to make them feel 27 as much at home as possible, so we had a bang-up celebration known as the Freshman Reception, where the Seniors had as much fun as the Freshmen. Meanwhile, we again elected Richard Pease for president. David Holden for vice-president, John Benson as treasurer, and Lucille Koster as secretary. The Senior members of the Student Council who were oflicers and big wheels of the Council were Betty Crozier, Richard Harper, Richard McIntosh, Lucille Kos- ter, Lois Tootill, Dotty Curtis, John Ben- son, and Charles Foote. The football team, composed of many Seniors, was one of the best teams in years and our boys led the basketball team to victories. In December the Seniors presented the play Dear Ruth which was a great hit. Members of the cast were Dorothy Curtis, Ruth Roberts, Richard Harper, Richard McIntosh, Kenneth Nelson, Jane Mullen, David Ulmer, Florence Eagan, Beverly Brewer, David Cassens, Lois Tootlll and James Connellan. In March, David Cassens won first prize for the State of Maine for his speech on Algin at the State Science Fair and the opportunity to compete in the New England Science Fair. The next thing to come was the Wash- ington Trip in April vacation and forty- one Seniors trooped to the Capitol. The Senior year is of course the busiest in the spring when one's time is spent on studies, the Highlite, Cauldron, track, baseball and softball teams, Glee Club, Band and Orchestra, college entrance exams and many other things, among them graduation preparations. Of course, new Senior members were elected to National Thespian Society and the Natlona II-Ionor Society. To the lat- ter society, Richard Harper, Lucille Kos- ter, Evelyn Perry, Grace Thompson, Charles Foote, Marie Dorr, Richard McIntosh, Beverly Brewer, Arlene Cross, Nina Johnson, ,Jean Weir, and Jane Mullen were elected. In June, the Seniors will leave Rockland High and shall return only as alumni. The class of 1949 will never again find such happiness as has been ours in our four, long, busy years at high school. So, to Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and teachers, we wish to bid farewell and ask you to remember us for both the good and not so good deeds we have done . . . Yes, Junior, that was our farewell to our school years and now oiI to bed with you. -David Cassens.

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Class History Yes, Junior, I went to Rockland High High School. Oh, all right, I'll tell you about it, but when I finish you'1l have to hustle right to bed. You can't stall all night, you know . . . I remember when we were in the 8th grade, we looked forward to high school with mixed emotions. We were all highly expectant, it appeared to be the biggest event of our lives. Many of us feared that we wouldn't make it. The next fall, with trepidation, we en- tered the hallowed portals of R. H. S. We've entered the same door, twice a day, 5 days a week, except for vacations, ever since, but somehow we never got the same thrill out of it. After we found our rooms, picked our seats, and settled down, we began dreading our fate. The Seniors lost no time in assuring us that we had at least a 50-50 chance of coming out alive from the Freshman Reception, and that we wouldn'-t be too badly mangled. They even promisd to provide an oxygen tent, iron lung, and ambulance. Of course then we didn't realize that they were merely trying to make us feel a home. We had all we could do to enter the building the night of the reception tif one of use had tried to pour a glass of milk he would have come up with whipped creamh. The whole affair was one mad whirl of bowing, lauding the Seniors, and providing entertainment in general. The Seniors tried to convince us that they were doing it for our own good, but that didnit help the blisters any. Meanwhile, we had elected our officers. We elected Richard Pease for president, James Connellan for Vice President. Barbara Jackson for Secretary, and Charles Foote for Treasurer. The class sent Marion Tracy, John Hughes, Betty Crozier, Robert Gamble, Grace Thomp- son, Richard Harper, Ethelyn Thompson and Henry Sleeper to the Student Council. Members of the class went out for glee club, football. basketball, and many other things. One outstanding event was Kippy Karnival and everyone in the class either took part in the entertainment or worked in booths Cincldentally the class this year successfully thought up the first Home-Made Articles Boothl. It didn't take us long to find out that Webster was pitifully inadequate when lt came to defining examinations and assignments However, We soon got the drift of it and got through the rest of the year without too much trouble. And then the great day arrived, we were Sophomores! At last that green color had faded. At last-no, Dotty, it wasn't paint. No, Junior, it wasn't ink either. How do you expect me to know how they got that way? I suppose they just grow that way. Now, let's have no more interruptions. During the Sopho- more year, we elected Richard for Presi- dent again, Lois Tootlll for Vlce-Presi- dent Barbara Jackson for secretary, and Richard McIntosh for treasurer. Off to the Student Council went Grace Thomp- son, Betty Crozier, Henry Sleeper, Rich- ard Harper, and Marilyn Dudley. In that year we plunged deep into the hallowed halls of Rockland High and came up with Sophomore Prize Speaking Contest. The finalists were Carolyn Chls- holm, Dorothy Curtis, Jack Northgraves, Jean Weir, Florence Eagan, James Con- nellan, Verna Waldron, David Ulmer, and Evelyn Perry. Jean Weir and Jack Northgraves were the first place winners. The class sent David Cassens and Oliver Curtis to the State Science Fair and Oll- ver came home with first prize of the State of Maine for his speech on Lob- stering. Quite an honor for -the class and school. That was an exciting year. We were all elated over the fact that we were no longer Freshmen. That year was prob- ably the year when we had the biggest struggle growing up. We read articles, adjustment arguments, and wrote essays, all based on the proposition that we were no longer kids but young ladies and gentlemen and as such some of us were on the football, baseball, basket- ball, track, and other leading teams and and were members of French, Latin, Glee clubs, in addition to helping make the Kippy Karnlval a success. We then trudged through another va- cation and the next fall we again mi- grated back to Rockland High. This year it was with a feeling of decided elatlon. We were reaching the station of life where we could look down on -those lower than we without being subject to the ridicule of those above us. We could see calmly and peacefully the world, which would soon be ours. The habit of electing Richard Pease as President had been formed, and we now

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The Cauldron of Fortune One evening as we were walking in the fog down by the moors, we heard a strange noise. To our surprise, there stood three witches bending over a steam- ing cauldron. As we started to pass by them, we overheard them telling the future of the class of 49. Jimmy Connellan will write a book named My Life and How I Got Away With It. Jane Harvey will have padded fenders on her car so she won't have to bend everything she runs into while driving. Elvira Johnson will teach bookkeeping to kindergarten students for practice. Dave Holden will surprise world by staying single, thus driving many of our females to suicide. Helena Huntley will prove that red hair doesn't always mean a bad temper by smiling all day in a furniture window. Dot Curtis will revolutionize the world when she takes Ethel Barrymore's place on the stage. Charlie Foote will become a very will- ing instructor in a school for nurses. Margaret Sawyer will swallow a pill accidentally and she will grow three more inches in the night. Dolly Thompson will invent a machine that does her housework while she con- tinues her education. Timothy Flsette will be the flrst person to buy the Brooklyn Bridge and sell it to the guy he bought it from at a 10096 profit. Grace Thompson will pass a law that pupils staying after school more than one hour will get a pension at 18. Rudy Clarke will enter a school that has tall boys for teachers. Dick Kaler will write a book entitled, How's Your Gin, Rummy? Lois Tootlll will instruct the boys at West Point the right way to march. Nina Johnson will own her own pro- gram called Wake Up and Live. Dick Harper will be a movie actor: making his footprints in cement one day and back mixing it the next. Lucille Koster will prove her ability by being John's other wife. Ruth Roberts will be a first-class grease monkey at the Nelson Brothers Garage. Edgar Kent will open a chain of night clubs in New Bedford, some of which will be called, Club Rigormortisf' Miceef Inn, and Hangover Haven. Alice Smalley will write a book called 'How to Develop Muscles On Thin People. Jane Mullen will compose some music named Cat On the Piano. Wesley Hayes will invent a stream- lined car to prevent the pedestrian from telling whether he has been run over or backed into. Betty Pendleton will snap gum for her living on a Dentyne Chewing Gum com- mercial. Bunky Manning will make doughnuts at her road-house called Bunky's Drink- ing Doughnut House. Ronnie Whiifen will be a bachelor and never marry because when it comes to taking a wife he doesn't know whose wife to take. Christine Flood will give a free course on the principal steps of becoming a she wolf. Arlene Edwards will invent a shampoo for blonds called Bleach Water. Conrad Brown is one ticket taker who should do very well in his business when he marries a ticket seller.